Write about whatever you want. You want to pick your favorite sauce? Go for it. Want to list your 10 favorite colors in order (with a reason, of course)? Sounds good. Tell a story, look up a creative prompt, etc. Create artwork with a picture linked--fantastic. Have fun!!!!
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Feminism is a topic we will be discussing a lot over the next few weeks as we read The Awakening, and then again when we read The Thing Around Your Neck. With that in mind, we should probably figure out what we are talking about. There are two parts to your blog post this week. First, I want you to come up with a definition of the term feminism (yes, you can copy and paste this from the internet). Second, I want you to watch a TedTalk from the playlist on Modern Feminism and write a brief reaction to the talk. It does not matter which one of these you watch--it is your choice.
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Life Aquatic Scene Okay, this week's blog post is to come up with and discuss a personal theme song. Now, this is NOT your favorite song, nor is it a song in a background; this is the song that would be playing around you as you enter a room. You and everyone else is aware of the song playing. There are several terms for this in movie making (theme tune cameo, waxing lyrical if you sing the words, diegetic sound, etc), but the key is that it is YOUR theme song. The examples above are just two simple ones that came to me off the top of my head. You can look at this song two ways: the way in which you believe that you are portrayed or the way in which you hope that you are portrayed. Someone believing that he or she is intimidating might choose the Jaws theme song, some hard rock or rap, etc. Someone wanting to be intimidating might choose those same songs. In more specific terms, I would love if my theme song was super cool and hip (fill in the blank with whoever is cool and hip right now...), but I never was nor will ever be cool and hip, so the song that I think would best embody me is Float On by Modest Mouse. I would pick this song for several reasons. First, this song is almost 10 years old, and it makes me happy every time I hear it (give the song a listen--the more times you listen to it, you will like it more and more, and you will want to turn it up louder and louder each time). Secondly, the theme of the song matches my personality well: "Bad news comes, don't you worry even when it lands/ Good news will work it way to all them plans/ We both got fired on, exactly, the same day/ Well, we'll float on, good news is on the way/ And we'll all float on okay" I am the ying to my wife's yang. She spends most of her life worrying, while I balance it out by not worrying at all (okay, I worry a little during Michigan sporting events, but that is about it)--neither way is right or wrong, but we work well together. My life motto may as well be Hakuna Matata (another good option for a theme song, from the greatest Disney movie of all time, but I think it would grow old). |
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